I had a similar experience. Nothing fixes it. Turned out to be  
switching hardware needs a reset. Simple, onvious solution, but easily  
overlooked



On Mar 8, 2010, at 23:50, Lee <allisevil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Really hoping someone out there can help.
>
> I am new to Solaris/OpenSolaris but have a reasonable amount of  
> experience with Linux. I have recently installed OpenSolaris 2009.06  
> snv_111b X86 on a HP Visualize P750 workstation. The system is  
> booting and running fine with the majority of hardware and services  
> operating correctly.
>
> However I am having problems with the network adaptor that I cannot  
> find a solution to. The ethernet adaptor is an AMD PCnet32 LANCE and  
> is using the pcn driver. The adaptor is able to obtain an IP address  
> and other network configuration details via DHCP, however network  
> performance is very slow and unreliable. Web pages do not load, and  
> establishing an SSH connection to the linux box next to it takes  
> around 5 minutes.
>
> The same network card has been tested on the same physical network  
> using a Ubuntu live cd. Additionally I have tried another network  
> cable and switch port.
>
> dladm show-ether yields the following:
> Link: pcn0  ptype: current  state:unknown  auto:no  speed-duplex:  
> 0M  pause:none
>
> MTU is set to 1500 (shown by dladm show-linkprop pcn0)
>
> Not really sure where to go from here, but without a network  
> connection the box isn't very much fun! Any advice or guidance would  
> be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Lee
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